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...Norton and I] were pretty successful and we’ve only played together once before,” Rosekrans said. “We did a lot of formations and that worked well...we have a lot of fun on the court Kristin...
Harvard came out onto the court of Newman Arena with all cylinders firing and quickly established a 4-0 lead. The Big Red recomposed itself and assembled an 8-2 run to get back in the game. With the momentum in its favor, Cornell cruised on to a 25-21 set win, refusing to yield the lead once...
Jackie Selebi, the former South African ambassador to the U.N. and head of Interpol, finally went on trial in Johannesburg on Oct. 5 after nearly two years of court delays. A close ally of former President Thabo Mbeki, Selebi is the most senior member of the governing African National Congress (ANC) to go to trial on corruption charges, accused of accepting bribes from a tycoon murder suspect, Glenn Agliotti, and his associates in 2004 and 2005. The case is being seen as a critical test of South Africa's judicial system. Since being elected President in April, Jacob Zuma...
...Agliotti said he was given introduction fees when he took other questionable businessmen to meet Selebi, including Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach, who two weeks ago pleaded guilty in a Pretoria court to 326 counts of tax evasion. In return for the money and gifts he gave to Selebi, Agliotti testified, Selebi tried to influence police cases involving him and his associates and tipped him off about investigations and surveillance operations the government had launched against him. Selebi denies all charges. (Read "South Africa's Succession Fight...
...death that the hapless Agliotti's relationship with Selebi emerged. Selebi, who was the country's first black police chief, once said of Agliotti that he was "my friend, finish and klaar [done]." The two men now appear to be estranged. They did not look at each other in court, and at one point during last week's testimony, Agliotti seemed close to tears when he said, "It's not easy being here. I didn't want to be here to testify against my then friend and the accused...